Two of New Zealand's top musicians are mourning a relative who died after being knocked down at a dangerous Auckland road crossing on her way to a karaoke club night.

A man has told of a teenage boy's desperate attempts to get help for his girlfriend who died when the car they were in crashed this morning.

Speed and alcohol are not thought to have been factors in a horror accident in which a Waikato jogger was crushed to death by an out-of-control 4WD, police say.

A female jogger was killed after being struck by a 4WD and pinned against the wall of a nearby house in Morrinsville this afternoon, police say.

The mother of a woman killed by a drink-driver is outraged police have stopped releasing name-and-shame lists of convicted drink-drivers because of concerns about breaching their privacy.

Thinking her husband was dead, Nina Bartlett scrambled out of bed to get to her newborn baby seconds after a stolen car ploughed through their bedroom at 150km/h.

A stolen car sought by police in connection with an assault ploughed into a large road sign pole in Hamilton, critically injuring a teenager.

An 83-year-old woman driver died after her BMW and a stock truck collided on the outskirts of Hamilton yesterday afternoon.

A driver died after their car collided with a stock truck in Hamilton this afternoon.

One person has suffered serious injuries after a train and a car collided in Hawkes Bay this afternoon.

Two people suffered minor injuries when a car and a tour bus, with 24 passengers, collided in Fiordland today.

A female scooter rider has died in a crash at Rotorua this morning and a second serious crash was being attended by emergency services in Putaruru.